We are a private syndicate of angel investors and have been active since 2001, although the founders have been successful private investors in technology start-ups for the last 10 years.
The founders of Cambridge Capital Group backed Bookham Technology and nCipher in early funding rounds, both of which floated very successfully on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. Recent successes include ITM Power and Bango, both listed on AIM, and DanioLabs, sold to Summit Plc.
Angel awareness event, 29th April 2010... CCG will give the keynote talk at this event at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, organised by EEDA and the British Association of Business Angels. For more information see Membership page.
Seeking promising startups! 2010 Annual Convention: we now seek good propositions from early-stage tech businesses seeking equity funding, for presentation at our forthcoming main event on May 20th. Please send us an appropriate summary via the contact page on this site if you believe your company meets our members' criteria for investment...
CCG enters its 10th year of existence...Our members have been backing high-tech start-ups in Europe's biggest technology cluster for more than a decade.
Our first investor event of 2010 was held in February at the beautiful Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge. 5 new software businesses presented to our members and sponsors, and one diagnostics portfolio company seeking a second round of funding. Follow-up analysis is taking place to establish which propositions may attract CCG investment.
New Year 2010 - best wishes to all our members, suppliers and sponsors. The CCG events programme for 2010 is being set up and we look forward to a busy year...
The spring meeting will take place on February 25th and the annual convention is scheduled for May 20th at Jesus College once again. A seed investment in Base4Innovation was completed in January; CCG participated in a London-Oxford-Cambridge syndicate to support this spinout from the Cavendish Laboratory.
October 14th 2009 - the CCG Autumn investor meeting. New investments are being negotiated following successful presentations to our member investors. A seed investment in Oval Medical Technologies Ltd. was completed in February 2010.
September 2009 - publication of the CCG Asia-Pacific Growth Stocks Report, following an intensive quantitative screening project on behalf of our founder members, utilising expert consultants from the City and a team of analysts. Please contact us for further information...
2009 CCG Annual Convention - Jesus College, Cambridge, May 21st. A high turnout for our main investor event of the year, with a good selection of companies and three transactions being worked on through the summer... In addition, plans made to research Asia-Pacific growth stocks for our members.
CCG 2009 Spring Meeting – Clare College, Cambridge. Our first event of 2009 took place on February 26th. In the meantime we are negotiating seed investments from companies that presented to us in the last quarter of 2008. Our iinvestments in Pneumacare, GenDrive and Augmentra completed during the course of the year.
CCG Autumn Meeting – Kings College, October 9th. Members and sponsors gather in the prestigious and historic surroundings of Kings College to hear presentations from six carefully screened early-stage technology businesses. Sectors range from software for mobile applications, medical diagnostics and devices, automotive design for electric vehicles, aluminium recycling technology for packaging and electronics for renewable energy generation.
CCG Convention 2008 - Jesus College, Cambridge, May 22nd-23rd.
Recently expanded CCG with five investors joining the group in 2008, sees presentations from 7 carefully screened early-stage companies seeking angel finance. 1-2 will be selected for funding by CCG...A number of portfolio companies also gave presentations of their progress.
Portfolio company name change to SUMMIT PLC (previously VasTox plc): Read more...
DanioLabs Ltd. acquired by VasTox plc, an AIM listed biotech company. DanioLabs was a CCG portfolio company that has merged its zebrafish based biotech business with VasTox (in April 2007), to create a world-leading company in its field.The combined group is now called Summit plc.
Two recent IPO's by portfolio companies gave substantial profitable realisations to CCG members:
Bango achieved a listing on AIM in June 2005, raising £7m at a valuation of £35m. Bango provides a technology platform as a service to content providers, enabling billing via the mobile phone operators. CCG members invested in the start-up round alongside other Cambridge based seed investors.
ITM Power, floated on AIM in June 2004 raising £10m at a valuation of £40m. CCG investors backed this fuel cell technology company in 2002, and the potential for its hydrophilic polymer materials in new energy industries has been recognised by a consortium of institutional investors. The share price did extremely wellover the subsequent two years, giving large profits to the angel investors.
